So this just out from the Rolling Stone:
Rep. Jim Jordan Is Named in New OSU Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
To be clear, this is a new lawsuit, not the one filed two days ago on behalf of 4 wrestlers that I blogged about yesterday.
This one is a class action suit, and it actually names Jordan, very accusingly, in the filing’s narrative section. This is the end for him.
On Tuesday, Jordan’s public-relations crisis became a legal nightmare. Attorneys filed a massive class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Ohio on behalf of an as-yet-unnamed former OSU wrestler. The law firm Sauder Schelkopf is seeking to represent all the students and athletes “treated” by Strauss in his two decades at the school, from the late ‘70s to the late ‘90s – a number they estimate will amount to “at least 1,500.”
Jordan, the jut-jawed anti-gay crusader who’s the fourth-ranking Republican leader in the House, is singled out in the suit: He’s one of only three former school officials named, including Strauss, though the action is aimed at all the coaches, administrators and others in positions of responsibility at OSU who, it claims, stood by while students and student-athletes were repeatedly “sexually abused, harassed, and molested,” and “forced” to seek treatment from a well-known predator even after they complained.
(emphasis mine, and probably unnecessary)
Read the RS piece. It’s well done and it blows Jordan out of the water. One of the ways it does that is by retelling a story the mag did last year about another sexual predator Jordan worked with, this time on Jordan’s staff:
The congressman managed to contain the fallout from an eerily similar revelation last November, when one of his longtime Washington aides and protégées, Ohio state Rep. Wesley Goodman, was publicly unmasked as one of the capitol city’s most notorious sexual predators during his six years working for Jordan, stalking and abusing at least 30 young conservative men he promised to “mentor.” This was huge news in Ohio, but was buried nationally beneath the daily drumbeat of Trump atrocities.
The Goodman scandal alone could have been enough to force Jordan out of Congress. In April, Elizabeth Esty, a Democratic representative from Connecticut, had to resign because she kept a former chief of staff on her payroll for three months after another former aide accused him of harassment. The well-documented accusations against Goodman are much, much broader. While working for Jordan for six years, Goodman reportedly harassed or assaulted at least 30 young men. Jordan adamantly denied that he had any knowledge of Goodman’s notorious reputation – just as he’s now claiming, against the word of his ex-wrestlers, that he had no clue that Strauss (who committed suicide in 2005) was groping the athletes.
Another rapist of men who was working closely with Jordan during his crime spree, Jordan the vitriolic homophobe. It’s a pathological pattern.
And it’s about to bring the bastard to the mat, on his back. I can hear the ref slapping the fall already.